Improved lamp and candle stand and holder



UNITED' STATES PATENT OFFICE;

GABRIEL UTLEY, OF CHAPEL-HILL, NORTH CAROLINA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,017, dated August 7, 1866.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GABRIEL UTLEY, of Chapel Hill, in the county of Orange and State of North Carolina, have made a new and useful Improved Lamp-Stand and Candlestick Combined; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the nature, construction, and operation of the same, sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which it appertains to construct and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which is a perspective view of my invention.

The invention consists ot' a base and rising spring-arms with a grasping-socket capable of embracing' a candle or the cylindrical shank of a lamp.

In the drawings, A is the base. B B are arms attached at their lower ends to the base, and, being made of pliable material, are capa' ble of grasping an object placed between theii upper ends, which terminate in semi-cylindrii cal sockets, so as to receive a candle or the cylindrical shank of alamp, and hold it securely.

The arm B being held by the hand, the socket may be opened to receive or relieve the object `by pressing With the thumb upon the button GABRIEL UTLEY.

Witnesses I. F. FREELAND, D. O. MCDADE. 

